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by damnyou 6y ago
That's not what at least one lawyer has told me, though lawyers tend to be a pretty cautious bunch. As I said, you've got to know the right people to get access to the stuff I'm talking about. (There are also other conditions
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by damnyou 6y ago
It's contractually forbidden. If you know the right people, you can get access to complete toolchains built in secret for compiling iOS apps on Linux. It's a lot of engineering work but not technically impossible. But it's al
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by damnyou 6y ago
Whether the app store is "inextricably tied" to Apple's platforms is beside my point. The state could simply force Apple to allow other app stores, or to write into law a maximum profit margin (similar to profit caps on the h
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by damnyou 6y ago
Probably not Microsoft or Blackberry, but in a society oriented in a more worker-friendly direction there would have been better outcomes in terms of freedoms than what Apple has produced.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yes, of course I want society to have a greater degree of democratic control over massive trusts like Apple!
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by damnyou 6y ago
I'm pretty sure if Apple hadn't created the modern smartphone someone else would have, and they'd probably have been less controlling and overall better than Apple too. The structural conditions for smartphones existed, Apple
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by damnyou 6y ago
Do developers have a reasonable choice other than to use Apple tools? You can't even compile an iOS app on a server-class operating system and instead have to overpay for low-spec Macs for CI.
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by damnyou 6y ago
That's exactly what they said later in the post.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The brightness at places like FB tends to be diverted towards making money, not ensuring software quality. (This is also true at places like Apple, just differently so.)
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by damnyou 6y ago
That sounds like it would increase the load on your brain, not decrease it.
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by damnyou 6y ago
From the article: "Rather than coming off as a legitimate attempt to help legitimate problems, then, this form of gender activism appears to many like an unappealing combination of ideologizing and attention-seeking and raises the ques
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by damnyou 6y ago
One of my closest friends is an AFAB demigirl. Despite the bad ideas of a subset of trans people (morphological liberation is very important to me), the idea of "transtrenders" is bogus and oppressive.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The entire idea of "transtrenders" is a made up one designed to perpetuate oppressive gender roles and work against solidarity within the trans community. The fact that she takes it seriously is pretty goddamn founded, as far as e
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by damnyou 6y ago
It is not just "unfortunate", it betrays their actual views, which is that we should be ready to sacrifice people's lives on the altar of patriarchal gender norms. A lot of the more polite bigots will be comfortable making co
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by damnyou 6y ago
Kathleen Stock is an intellectual fraud whose proposed public policies are straight up fascist: https://twitter.com/LisaTMullin/status/1116865382776590336 How seriously this crowd takes her says a lot about its ow
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by damnyou 6y ago
That's a shockingly ignorant article, particularly when it comes to nonbinary people — it even uses "transtrenders" to try and separate the good, gender-conforming trans people from those icky blue-haired weirdos . Thank you
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by damnyou 6y ago
Indeed, we have a disagreement there. I consider the rationalist truth-over-everything-else philosophy to be profoundly, deeply unjust and immoral.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Using standard truth-seeking tools is in fact bad and harmful when it comes to people's identities. The ultimate goal of society should not be to seek out objective truth! It should be to minimize harm to human beings. Seeking tr
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yes, the problem is not with immigration itself but with who reaps the benefits of it. The immigrants obviously massively benefit because they're in a more productive environment. But after that, capitalists and landowners gain far mor
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by damnyou 6y ago
Tell that to all the game developers whose games can no longer be played on Catalina.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Apple makes far too much money for this to be a legitimate excuse.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Ahh, last I checked Apple would only do 1 more year of security updates. Glad to see they've changed their stance. 10 is better than 7 but not as good as the 15+ years Windows and Linux offer.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Correct. Apple's overall strategy with its short 7-year lifecycles is to use planned obsolescence in order to continue extracting money from its consumers. An 8 year old desktop running Windows 10 or Ubuntu 20.04 is perfectly functiona
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by damnyou 6y ago
Sure, but here it's support for hardware costing 4-5 figures being dropped after a paltry 7 years. The latest version of Windows 10 runs great on 10 year old desktops, and will probably be supported for many more years to come.
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by damnyou 6y ago
This is remarkable spin on what is objectively a bad thing.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I have 10 year old PCs that are perfectly functional. My main desktop is mostly from 2012 with a couple upgrades in between and works like a champ. 7 years is far too low. This is planned obsolescence. With Apple preventing dual boot on ARM
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by damnyou 6y ago
If Apple is so confident then it can allow alternative app stores and drop its monopoly enforced through technology.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Plenty of people that grew up lower middle class in their home countries now making 500k a year on H1s at FAANGs. H1s benefit the immigrants the most, and any analysis that centers anything other than the immigrants is deeply inhuman.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Well, clearly, "value arb", given that Apple has no competition among iOS app stores.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Apple is welcome to charge 2.9% the way other payment processors do. That is reasonable. 30% is a protection racket.

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